Which Words are not in the Dictionary?
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I dare you to challenge me to find a word that you think I may not be able to find. You think I can’t find cantankerous? Hah! I typed in only the first six letters, and the word populated itself onto my iPhone screen. Not only did this neat little App give me the definition of the word, it also will tell me how to properly pronounce it! The New Oxford American Dictionary from Handmark has more than 250,000 entries and definitions you can access anytime, anywhere.
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6 Comments
Grant Barrett
December 15th, 2008
at 4:02am
Okay, I’ll bite. What about these?
car seat or carseat: a portable seat for a baby or small child that can be strapped into an automobile.
chub: fat on a person’s body; a nickname for someone who is fat, short for “chubby.”
cleantech or clean tech: a technology that is better for the environment than a previous technology that accomplished the same thing.
kinara: Kwanzaa candle-holder.
jumbotron: often used as a generic for any large outdoor video screen, though it is/was a trade name, “JumboTron.”
owie: children’s term for a wound or sore spot. “Ouchie” is missing, too.
ping-pong: figurative verb. to go back and forth. Ping Pong, the trademark referring to the game, is probably in there.
slurb: slum + suburb.
whisper number: in the financial industries numbers rumored before an official announcement, such as earnings reports.
Zonian: a United States citizen living in the Panama Canal Zone.
Harl Delos
December 15th, 2008
at 11:05am
You said: I dare you to challenge me to find a word that you think I may not be able to find.
I say: challenge accepted.
The word is “dopplick”. Some people spell it doplick.
A newborn colt or calf is dopplick – it is clumsy, uncoordinated, and can barely stand upright. When rugrats start standing up and beginning to walk, their parents laugh at the clumsiness and lovingly refer to them as dopplick as well.
I’m told the term is mostly used in Pennsylvania Dutch country, but I’ve heard it used in rural communities with no appreciable Amish population.
7egend
December 16th, 2008
at 10:18am
Guzzle – which is another term for the Adam’s Apple/ throat.
Ya’ll – You All.
You’ns – Same as above.
Superpunch
December 16th, 2008
at 10:43pm
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
that not in the dictionary!
Omer
December 16th, 2008
at 11:20pm
I have a word: klsakdjlasjdklasjkasldjlasjdaskldjjal
It doesn’t make any sense but it’s a word (:
Amie
March 11th, 2009
at 2:46pm
Blairf: noun: feeling of satisfaction and calmness but also boredom